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A Comparison Of Characteristics Of Terminated Afdc Cases With Cases Remaining Active From The June 1966 Afdc Load In Linn County, Oregon, William Everett Lowther

Dissertations and Theses

A study of the characteristics of AFDC cases active in Linn County, Oregon in June 1966 and of the difference in characteristics between those cases closed by September 1, 1967, and those cases remaining active on that date. The source of data was the case records of the Linn County Department of Public Welfare. There were 212 cases in the study with 200 suitable for full analysis.

The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that there is a difference in selected characteristics between cases remaining active and cases that close. Case records were read and then characteristics …

Traits Associated With Choosing Social Work As A Career, Helen Ellsworth

Dissertations and Theses

This was a study of traits associated with the choice of social work as a career. Two samples of people from the metropolitan area of Portland, Oregon, who had shown an interest in social work, were studied, together with the factors that influenced this interest. The traits and factors considered were substantially those examined by Arnulf M. Pins in Who Chooses Social Work, When and Why?

Traits measured by the Pins study of individuals who had gone on to graduate education in social work were held indicative of individuals most likely to become professional social workers. The Pins' questionnaire was …

Social Work And The Law—Some Curriculum Approaches, Charles I. Schottland

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Place Of Law In Social Work Education: A Commentary On Dean Schottland's Article, Edward V. Sparer

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Social Work And The Law—Some Curriculum Approaches: A Commentary On Dean Charles Schottland's Article, Louis Levitt

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Follow-Up Study Of Fifty-Two Richmond Public School Pupils Given Psychiatric Staffing During The 1966-1967 School Year, David F. Hopkins, James A. Ryan, Sandra Laverne Wright

Theses and Dissertations

This research study is a descriptive study of the effectiveness of the psychiatric staffing as determined by a follow-up study of fifty-two Richmond Public School Pupils given such staffing during the l966-67 school year. The review of pertinent literature reveals what others have contributed to the knowledge of the nature and function of the school helping team. The teamwork approach, which involves the efforts of several professions and disciplines working closely together, is seen as the best present method to meet the complex, overlapping needs which have been found to affect students' learning.

As a means of establishing guidelines and …

A Projected Study Of Unmarried Mothers’ Pathways To The Agency, Emily Scheffer Dolbeer

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.

The Long-Range Effects Of The Intensive Casework Approach In Service To Multi-Problem Families, Lynn Taylor

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.

Multi-Family Group Treatment Of Multi-Problem Families: Preliminary Study, Judith S. Duckman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.

A Method For Predicting Foster Parent Success, Joan G. Gilmore

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The criteria used to judge the acceptability of foster parent applications and the relationship of these criteria to the actual rate of foster parent success are issues of great concern for people working with foster children. The purpose of this study is to test the predictability of a rating scheme in order to one, make effective use of home-study time and two, minimize unsuccessful placements.

Factors important in this analysis are those of agency time and commitment to both client groups involved—potential foster parents and children—as well as the expectations and gratifications of the foster parents. These people are the …

Organizational Ineffectiveness And Professional Influence, Robert D. Young

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The present study is concerned with the consequences of the lack of congruence between the social work profession and the social agency, for the effectiveness with which the agency, as an administrative organization is able to provide social work services efficiently.

Follow-Up Study Of Emotionally Disturbed Children To Assess Community Services Available After Treatment, Marilyn Wright

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The purpose of this research project would be to discover, by means of a follow-up study, the kinds of community services most needed for children returning to the community from residential treatment centres for the emotionally disturbed, in their attempts to resume normal and improved levels of functioning, and to maintain this improvement, if not in fact stabilizing and bettering their adjustment still further.

Social Integration Of Deserted Mothers, Monte F. Schooley

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The social problems which deserted mothers who are in receipt of Family Benefits experience has been a major concern of personnel in the Ontario Department of Social and Family Services for several decades. Their primary concern of the past has been that of ensuring the mothers adequate financial resources with which to purchase the necessities of life. Changes in legislation have reflected this concern, and with the recent passage of the Family Benefits Act, 1967, deserted mothers are assured of adequate finances with which to purchase their basic needs.

With the basic requirements of food, shelter and clothing being assured …

The Potential Use Of Social Welfare Assistant Graduates From Ontario’S Community Colleges, Jane Irving

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The purpose of this project is to design an exploratory study to examine how the graduates of the two-year social welfare assistants courses from Ontario’s Community Colleges might be employed in the Children’s Aid Societies of Ontario. Such a study will be only a prelude to many other investigations but may provide some immediately useful answers and raise many questions that will form the basis for future research on this topic.

A Study Of Problems In Family Functioning In Long Term Male Hospital Patients, Alison A. Murray

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

The topic for this exploratory study arose out of the question “What happens to long term male hospital patients when they return home?” The assumption is that men who have been absent from their homes and families for long term hospital treatment have some difficulty fitting in to the pattern of family life on their return. They may have difficulty in re-establishing a mutually satisfactory relationship with their wives and children. They may find it stress producing to reassume their role in decision making, in exercising authority and in providing economic security and a satisfactory style of living.

The results …

Separation From Professional Employment Among Female Graduates Of Canadian Schools Of Social Work, David Ralph Cassidy

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

There are several factors which affect the present position of social work as a profession. Historically, it is a relatively young profession. As such, there have been many changes as a state of stable professional identity is sought. Frmo what can be forecast, social work will continue to change, to borrow new knowledge from related professions, to develop new knowledge from within, to retain a dynamic and progressive view to self-improvement, and to work toward the general improvement of social conditions.

While many things have changed, the problem of adequate manpower has not appreciably improved. The number of graduate social …

A Proposed Follow-Up Study For Craigwood, John Duerksen

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.

A Project To Study The Effect Of A Waiting Period On The Length Of Treatment Of The Family Service Agency’S Long-Term Cases, John Hartman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

No abstract provided.

Adolescent Delinquent Girls: An Experimental Treatment, Dennis Walker

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This research paper intends to investigate the problem of treatment of adolescent delinquent girls. It intends to explore the theoretical factors relevant to the treatment of this group and to incorporate them within an experimental design for treatment. This treatment design will be set up so that a comparison of relative effectiveness between it and the principal treatment method currently in use in the Children’s Aid Societies of Ontario can be made.

Counselling Foster Parents, Airdrie Thompson

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

My interest in this topic is the result of having been a foster parent for a period of one year for a group home for emotionally disturbed teenage boys. When my husband and I undertook this project, we had been married for two years and had one daughter of a year old. The five boys we had during this period ranged in age from eleven to fourteen years. This in itself was a phenomenal adjustment to our way of life. A couple grows with its family, passing through the various stages of development, moving gradually from one experience to the …

The Use Of Self-Determination And Confidentiality In Casework And Group Work Practice: An Exploratory Study, George A. Fisher, James M. Hanson, Frances Peterson, Helen Phillips

Dissertations and Theses

This study is the seventh in a series begun in 1957 to relate social work theory to general systems theory. The purpose of this study was to assess, through the judgment of professional social workers, the use of the two concepts, self-determination and confidentiality, in casework and social group work situations. The two concepts were operationalized by construction of five practice principles for each concept. An instrument was developed in which a critical hypothetical situation exemplified each principle for both methods with a forced choice of four actions evidencing the degree of self-determination and confidentiality. Forty randomly selected trained social …

Social Exchange In Private Family Day Care Arrangements, Gerald Wesley Perry

Dissertations and Theses

A study of social exchange between working mothers and their sitters was based on a sample of terminated family day care arrangements in Portland, Oregon (1966-67). The sample, provided by the Multnomah County Public Welfare Commission and the Day Care Exchange Project of northwest Portland consisted of the arrangements of 27 mothers and 23 sitters.

Review of the literature on family day care revealed a paucity of research on the relationship between mothers and sitters in such arrangements. The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that continuity of a family day care arrangement is a function of …

A Scale Of Verbal Accessibility In Marriage, Barbara F. Kresse

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this project was to develop a tool to clarify one concept of verbal interaction in marriage. This concept, Verbal Accessibility, was developed by Norman Polansky and defined as the degree of readiness of the individual to communicate verbally and to participate in communication about his determinant attitudes. Verbal Accessibility is dependent on two variables: l) the enduring characteristics of the individual, and 2) the release of inhibiting factors in a given situation.

In order to facilitate the use of this concept in treatment, a scale was needed to measure Verbal Accessibility of both the person and of …

Using Eriksonian Concepts In Observing Developmental Levels In Two Groups Of Preschool Children, Roland J. Lindstrom

Dissertations and Theses

In this study concepts from Erikson's widely cited theory of child development were operationally defined and empirically tested.

The purposes of the study were: (1) to ascertain whether a set of social workers with an understanding of Eriksonian theory could use it in a meaningful way to observe pre-school children; (2) to ascertain whether the theory could be used to differentiate between culturally advantaged, culturally deprived, and, as emerged in the analysis, handicapped children; (3) to ascertain whether the theory could be used diagnostically to obtain information about a child's developmental level or problem area.

In the fall of 1966 …

Medical-Social Needs In A Sample Population Of Elderly Post-Hospital Patients, Rose N. Cooper

Dissertations and Theses

The EPP Project was a descriptive and inferential study designed to determine the psychosocial and medical needs of elderly post-hospital dischargees.

The areas of need assessed were (1) living arrangements, (2) use of leisure time, (3) vocational adjustment, (4) financial functioning and (5) adjustment to illness.

The instrument adopted for the purpose of this study was an adaptation of a scheduled in the New York Study. The New York Study, described in The Elderly Ambulatory Patient: Nursing and Psychosocial Needs by Doris Schwartz, Barbara Henley and Leonard Zeitz was a long-range study of the needs of elderly clinic patients. The …

Social Protest In The Works Of The Guatemalan Writer Mario Monteforte Toledo, Donna Mae Peterson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The Indianist theme in Latin America began almost as soon as the first white man set foot on American soil. Earliest writings took the form of social protests over the poor treatment which was meted out to the Indians and abuses which were committed against them. Shortly before Christmas in 1511, Fray Antonio de Montesinos delivered a stinging sermon against the Spaniards for their maltreatment of the Indian:

Implementation Of The Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964 As Evidenced By A Community Action Program In Baltimore, Maryland, Maria M. Carroll

Theses and Dissertations

This research is directed to a rough and beginning evaluation of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 as evidenced through one Community Action Program, the Neighborhood Development Program, in Baltimore, Maryland during the late fall of 1966. In this study the implementation of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 is evaluated according to the perceptions of the Neighborhood Development Assistants who are the indigenous workers in the program. The purposes of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and each Community Action Program were taken directly from the Act itself, and then various phrases were operationally defined.

The data was collected …

Constructing A Tool For Measuring Common Social Work Activities, Patricia M. Armstrong

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is one in a series of studies concerned with the interrelationship of General Systems Theory and social work knowledge. The purpose of this particular study was to develop a questionnaire to test the generic quality of the actions performed among the three traditional specialties of social work -- casework, group work and community organization.

The universe from which the sample of concepts was obtained were the acts performed by people in behalf of others. Specifically, the 421 concepts in the sample were obtained from literature in the fields of social work, sociology, psychology, and counseling and guidance. These …

Unmet Social Work Needs In An Inmate Population Of A County Correctional Institution, Jerry M. Harkins

Dissertations and Theses

This descriptive study was designed to elicit the kinds, extensity and intensity of needs of the inmate population of Multnomah County Correctional Institution, a minimum security jail for misdemeanants.

A guiding hypothesis asserted that there were unmet needs of prisoners which could be met through social work services both within and outside the institution.

Almost the entire population of the institution was interviewed. Open-end and structured responses were recorded on schedules. Five broad areas of need were defined. These were 1) physical needs -- including food, clothing, shelter, and medical care; 2) social needs -- including interpersonal ties, group membership, …

Marital Interaction Theory: Some Implications For Research, Lucille S. Pugh

Dissertations and Theses

This project examines specific basic areas of marital interaction theory. Individual chapters are developed around the following themes: historical development of the theory of interaction; a theoretical discussion of selected concepts; personality as a determinant of interaction; communication in marriage; marital interaction patterns; methodology pertaining to research findings; and finally some implications for research which became apparent as this project developed.

The project lays the conceptual groundwork for a series of empirical studies that will use the interactional approach as a theoretical base. The immediate purpose of this project therefore is to describe the important dimensions of the interactional approach …